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Hymn: Life is the time to serve the Lord (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: Life is the time to serve the Lord

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune: Old Saxony

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 052, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Life is the time to serve the Lord,

The time t'insure the great reward;

And while the lamp holds out to burn, 

O hasten, sinner, to return!



Life is the hour that God has given

To  scape from hell and fly to heaven;

The day of grace, when mortals may

Secure the blessings of the day.



Then what my thoughts design to do,

My hands, with all your might pursue;

Since no device nor work is found,

Nor faith, not hope, beneath the ground.



There are no acts of pardon passed

In the cold grave to which we haste;

O may we all receive thy grace,

And see with joy thy smiling face.